Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-02

20 count the SOLID CaSn IN me lulttC
States Treasury. Here is q more tempt
ing opportunity for the enterprising
train-robber than any express-car can
offer.
IRIS reported that Belgian and English
fnrnciers have offered the Chinese Gov
eminent loan Of $lGo0Oo,0oo, payable
in ten years, for the construction Of rail-
roads in the envi-e.
DANIEL WEB5rEEs second wife's maid.
en- name was Catherine Leroy, and Bos-
ton had strange coincidence last week.
Another Daniel Webster vas defendant
in a divorce case, and his plaintiff wife's
maiden name was Catherine Leroy.
ALAS ARrnUR, son Of the late President
Arthur, drew a revolver on an English
man with whom he got into a quarrel at
Delmonico's last Monday night. The En-
glishman was hurried away by friends in
time to prevent Jloodshed.
The loss caused by the burning Of the
Belt line stables in New York viii exceed
100000 Thirteen hundred horses
burned an! one woman died of fright.
seventy-fve dwellings, soap factory
and Brewery we're also burned.
TIN United states Commissioner Of
Agriculture has ordered all the cattle in
New York city and the surrounding coun
ties, and the city Of Baltimore ana the
adjaceu, region, to be quarautined be
cause Of the alleged existence Of pieuro-
pneumonia.
FsAScrAL geuins appears to be besedi-
tary in Jay Goult's family. His son
George is reported to have made a pile OF
money this year. and g younger son has
been carrying on successful speculations
in oil and railroad stock. But perhaps
Jay gives tie boys tips
SEVERAL attempts have been m2de TO
blow up the house Of Mrs. Francis Richey.
in yincennes, Ind with dynamite, and
it is currently believed ,ha, the ou;rages
are the Work Of a female rival in the dress
making business. Competition in the
dress-making business mus. run very
high in Indiana
Two newspaper reporters were run over
and killed on a Pennsylvania railroad on
Saturday. When the company pays their
families $4,000 apiece damages it viii
drive another nail into the coffin OF the
Interstate Commerce act. Under the old
fyee-pass system reporters could be killed
without expense.
CASNos FLruiSo, the English divine
who used par Of one of DE Talmage's
sermons as his own in q volume of scr
mons published by him, explains that it
was an act of inadyertency Sn his part.
It viii not take many inadyer;sncies of
that kind 70 make g good com. for pla-
giarism against the Cannon.
THg balloon which the New York World
is going to send up at s.. Louis, about
Jupe 10, for voyage acros the lakes to
New York, will carry four persons and be
provisjoned for two weeks, The baske,
will Do 80 constructed that, should j. de-
scend into one Of the lakes, il would doa
on .be water a long time.
Arms in the Opera Comi4ue, the old
est theater in Paris, Wednesday night,
caused terrible panic among the audi
enee ana the performers. and many per
sons were Killed ana injured either by
being trampled under foot or jumping
ou. Of the wirdoRs. Tie building was
consumed. At las; advices forty dead
bodies had been recovered from the
rsins.
Miss NAa4 TlLlNeuAsr. OF New Yorg,
is one Of the most successful ot she vo-
men engaged in decovauveart. Vanderbilt.
once paid her Sso0oo for invsnans
new kind o. tapestry harginss for his
house. she also supplied the fine design
representing Jacobs aresm for stained
window recently constructed in Grace
Church. Nsw York. waish i much ad
m..ed
PAFanFNr CLEVELAND who bias never
been west Of Buffalo o. .he Allegheny
Mountains, i planning to make a tour Of
this section Of the country next SeP;sn
Der He viii visit s.. Louis Chicago ans
St. Paul. The President viii see the best
and the smartest portion OF the country
he presides ovsr-that We can promise